The default Value for the background color of a Bo...

# compose-desktop

[Tobias Wohlfarth]

The default Value for the background color of a Box is transparent, right? I have generated a custom Material Theme with https://material-foundation.github.io/material-theme-builder/
How do i set the background color of a Box to the normal background ?

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Box is a layout element. There’s no “default” background that it has; it just has no background unless you pass Modifier.background to it.

[Tobias Wohlfarth]

And no background means the color of the element 'below' is shown. But the the MaterialTheme function sets kind of normal background for the App. I want my Box to have that background color, to prevent showing elements that can be be dragged around my program. I hope my explanation is understandable.

The Box is the container for these play control buttons as shown in the screenshot below

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

You may want Surface

[Tobias Wohlfarth]

Yep

Modifier.background(MaterialTheme.colorScheme.surface)

solved it.

Next question: does Compose Desktop respect OS/Desktop enviroment setting for darkmode/lightmode? In my case Linux/KDE.

Or must this be configured manual by the user?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

BTW, give a try https://materialkolor.com/
it is more power then the material-theme-builder